Day 363: Forgive Us Our Trespasses (2025)
The Catechism in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz)
Ascension
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🗓️ 29 December 2025
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
Forgiving those who have hurt us is a challenging call. Fr. Mike explains what it means to "forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us." We learn that forgiveness and reconciliation are not the same thing and that we can transform our hurt into intercession with God's grace. We ask the Lord to soften our hearts so that they may remain open to loving and forgiving others. Today's readings are Catechism paragraphs 2838-2845.
This episode has been found to be in conformity with the Catechism by the Institute on the Catechism, under the Subcommittee on the Catechism, USCCB.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, my name is Father Mike Schmitz, and you're listening to the Catechism in Eir podcast, where we |
| 0:09.5 | encounter God's plan of sheer goodness for us, revealed in scripture, and passed down through |
| 0:13.6 | the tradition of the Catholic faith. The Catechism in a year is brought to you by ascension. |
| 0:16.9 | In 365 days, we'll read through the Catechism of the Catholic Church, discovering our identity in God's family as we journey together toward our heavenly home. This is Day 363. We're reading paragraphs 2838 to 2845. As always, I'm using the Ascension edition of the Catechism, which includes the Foundations of Faith approach. But you can follow along with any recent version of the Catechism of the Catholic Church. You can also download your own catechism in a year reading plan by visiting ascensionpress.com |
| 0:41.6 | slash CIY, and you can click follow or subscribe in your podcast app for the daily updates for |
| 0:46.0 | the next two days, you know, whatever, and daily notifications. |
| 0:48.7 | Today is day 363. |
| 0:51.2 | We're reading paragraphs 2838 to 2845. And man, this part of the Lord's prayer, it's |
| 0:57.6 | astonishing. In fact, those are the first words of paragraph 2838. It says, and forgive us our |
| 1:03.2 | trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us. And the first line here, this petition |
| 1:08.2 | is astonishing. I was thinking this morning, I was just praying about this |
| 1:11.5 | and praying about, I know that when it came to the life in Christ, it came to the third pillar, |
| 1:16.3 | morality, right, how we live. I know there is a lot of challenge. There's a lot of challenge for a lot |
| 1:20.8 | of people because we have our pet things. We have our stuff that I don't want to let go of this. |
| 1:24.7 | I don't want to surrender this to the Lord. I think this is how it should be. I don't understand how this teaching could possibly be lived out. I don't know if |
| 1:32.4 | there's a more difficult teaching than this teaching. Forgive us our trespasses as we forgive |
| 1:39.0 | those who trespass against us. It asks a lot. Not only does it ask the Lord God to forgive us fully, |
| 1:46.5 | but it demands a lot on us. It demands that we are forgiven to the degree that we are willing |
| 1:56.1 | to forgive those who have hurt us. And that's a lot. And so as we talk about this teaching today, |
| 2:02.2 | this teaching that sometimes it might have gone under the radar, maybe actually in our lives, |
| 2:06.6 | we might have even kind of just glazed over this petition. Or maybe even we've been convicted |
| 2:11.7 | by this petition. And it's been one of those things that's painful. Every time we pray it, |
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